The playground back then was like an American Gladiator' s obstacle course. Parents were different too. You only went to the hospital if you broke your nose or better. Chipped teeth and broken fingers got charged to the game. 30% of people born before 1988 go a crooked finger because their parents never took them to the hospital even if they had health insurance 😂😃🤣😂😂
In my early elementary days we had a huge tri-colored one. Every recess there was a challenge to see who could spin it the fastest and stay on the longest, ha ha. . . didn't help that it was built on asphalt.
Lmao you let go that's your ass. And let someone try to hop in while its spinning smh hospital visits all around. The jungle gym was 2nd having someone run across the top stepping on fingers during a game of who can hold on the longest
My cousin was dragged underneath it...we didn't understand that it was dangerous and was laughing. She was covered with dirt from head to toe and after a quick cry just kept on playing. I fell from the monkey bars into gravel and was passed out for like 5 min...no hospital just carried and cradled until I woke up...adults were were concerned but not concerned enough to take us to hospitals.
@@spiceyboogerspiceybooger6437 lol smh that's why these parks are getting torn down and rebuilt with different play areas. In elementary a classmate of mines got pushed from the top where fireman pole is onto sharp gravel and had her legs torn up to the white meat as she slid across the ground. Kid got expelled, school got sued and park was gone all in 2days
Man, remember when school lunches didn’t even have actual fries, they had those weird potato pucks in the shape of a smiley face. I didn’t even know you could actually get them at the store until a few months ago when i was passing through the frozens section, and there they were. Didn’t even know you could get them outside of school, i thought they were made specifically for school. Not like i wanted them anyways, those things were the most bland thing i’ve ever had, not even smothering them in katchup would help. Worse part about lunch for me was that my family didn’t have a lot of money, so more than once i wouldn’t have enough money to oay for lunch and they had to take away my tray and i wouldn’t have anything to eat. The only thing that helped was that i would have to go to the office to ask for a lunch pass, which lets me have one free lunch, but the problem was that you were given one once a month, so if i had to go in for another one the next day, they’d just say you used up yours and send you off. I was so pissed because they had these little sandwich things with the crust cut off, those were a dime a dozen and yet this school didn’t think to give these to students that didn’t have enough. And they knew that my mom didn’t make a lot of money at the time. They had this thing where the the school could automatically add money to my lunch account when it got low and in order to activate it, my mom had to send in how much income she gets to see if she could register, which she was, but just barely. Thing was, if her account got too low, the auto thing would get shut off, so there were i’d be off by a dollar or two, and i still wouldn’t get lunch because the autoaccount thing was off, which my mom had to reactivate manually every time this happened, which was a lot. And she wouldn’t even be notified about it happening, so i’d tell her what happened and she’d be genuinely confused. I’m glad i’m finished with highschool so now i don’t have to deal with that kinda crap. Edit:i just now realized i went from talking about my discovery to an absolute tangant, my bad.
Square school pizza was a lesson in itself in ag subsidies. Thick, floury crust, molecule-thin scrape of sauce, a solid quarter-inch of cheese and one paper-thin slice of pepperoni. You could really taste what the school district had to buy from the local budget and what came in for free from the USDA.
Pizza day with a chocolate milk as a choice. I remember that! I'm from down south, so I also remember fried catfish day. Talking about who is bringing the hot sauce that day🤣🤣!
Lol in from the south too I remember red beans and rice day with chocolate milk! And that crazy merry go round gives me the spins just thinking about it 🤣🤣😂
Yeah, that merry go round, I was that abused kid at home but I was smart too, and when I got on I didn't push faster, I just slowly moved to the center causing the centrifugal force to exponentially excellerate and before you knew it, kids were popping off that thing left and right. Then some adult would come up looking all stern and everything, and I just stood there looking like I was dumb. They would say, "Don't' you know it moves faster as you move to the center?" I was like, " no I didn't know that." Good times.
Do kids come home with as many cuts and bruises as I did? My parents had a whole first aid kit in the early 80s and they were always putting cream or stinging anti-septic liquid on them.
It’s a wonder any of us from Gen X made it to adulthood! We fell, we scraped skin, we lost limbs, busted our heads, and we kept on coming back for more! That’s why we so tough! We are the last generation to be home alone after school and be outside for hours on end. Long as you showed up for dinner, lol!
I wish they could get some of that good fresh food from the Detroit urban farms...poor kids getting such an unhealthy diet at school and at home. It affects their lifelong health and also learning abilities. 😞
Honestly. I never understood why they served us milk for lunch. I hated it and I never drank it. Apple juice or orange juice in a bag me please lol I guess because when I remember when I was out to eat with my mom and sis and I wanted milk with my food and my mom said milk doesn’t go with food so that stuck with me so when I see anyone who drinks milk with their food I’m like 🤢 🤮 and because I also don’t drink cows milk too so that’s another reason why lol
